Secret Agent
(1936)
Overview
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers
W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, Jesse Lasky Jr.
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Madeleine Carroll
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CinemaSerf
⭐ 6/10June 19, 2022
John Gielgud charmingly portrays the novelist-cum-officer dragooned by the British spy service into travelling to Switzerland on the trail of a Nazi spy. He is assigned two assistants - a rather naive, but keen, Madeleine Carroll "Elsa" and a suitable sleazy, but lethal, Peter Lorre "as The General". Their first attempt to fulfil their mission goes awry somewhat, as they dispatch the wrong person. It is at this point their consciences start to ki… read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
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